Kathy is on her way to the hospital

Kathy is on her way to the hospital. she had a mammogram last week and the film showed some lumps in her breast that had not been there before . A mammogram is not painful . A machine takes a picture of your breast . Kathy's doctor recommends that she have a mammogram every two yearskat
kathy is 48 year old. her mother at the age of 56 did of breast cancer . As with all cancer , early diagnosis and prompt treatment is very important. her mother never went to doctor. finally when she was feeling so poorly she went to the hospital and they told her she had breast cancer . by then it had spread to her bones and several months later she died. today, they going to take th pictures of kathy is breasts. if the lump are malignant (OR CANCERUS) , they will need to be removed before the cancer spreads to parts of her body
Kathy knows she is at high risk for breast cancer since her mother died from it , kathy watches her weight eats a low fat diet , and exercises . she dose monthly breast self - examination and knows that most lump found in the breasts are not cancerous but women need to see their physicians to find out for sure
cancer is caused by uncontrolled growth and spread of abnoral cell. a cancerous cell grows and diverds endlessly, crowding out nearby healthy cells and eventually spreading to other parts of the body . a mass, or collection, of cancer cells is call a malignant tumour
more than 500,000 americans died of cancer each year . of these deaths almost 180,000 could have been prevented with early diagnosis and prompt treatment . it is estimated about 30 percent of the population in the untied states will eventually develop some type of cancer